SoftBank Reduces Manual Sizes to Lessen Environmental Impact

TOKYO, November 18, 2008 --- SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. is currently working on reducing paper usage as part of its environmental efforts. Manuals for ‘AQUOS Mobile FULLTOUCH SoftBank 931SH’ and ‘SoftBank 930SH’, latest models for the winter 2008 sales season, have been slimmed-down to one-third the size of manuals for preceding models to promote further reduction of paper use. Further descriptions which are not included in the manual will be available on the SoftBank website.

*1 Detailed manual will be available on the SoftBank website (free download) or through the customer center or online shop upon request. For those who request one through the customer center or online shop, a bound manual (Japanese only) will be available at the customer expense.

*2 This service started from the October 2006 billing month, and is available as a basic service for all individual customers from April 2007.

*3 This service is available only at certain shops.

*4 Scaled down dramatically from the former size (155mm x 102mm x 220mm) to the new size (138mm x 70mm x 192mm).

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* AQUOS Mobile is a registered trademark or trademark of Sharp Corporation.

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